Population in South Asia

Contents: Preface. 1. Population growth and change. 2. Policies on family planning services. 3. Population and knowledge growth. 4. Family planning programmes. 5. Modelling of spatial populations. 6. Natural resources and population growth. 7. Roles in family planning. 8. Controversy over abortion. 9. Population stabilisation. 10. Microsimulation approach in demography. 11. Empowerment of women. 12. Demographic transition. 13. Demographic estimation. 14. Population sizes of Asian countries. Index. 

“The current young age structures of Asian population simply continued population growth in virtually all countries in the region. Future increases in population will be smaller than they have been in past forty years. They remain large in absolute terms, and will often be accompanied by substantial shifts in age structure as well as geographic distribution.

Realising the negative effect of rapid population growth on development, the South Asian countries have launched family planning programmes in a large scale. Properly planned population education programmes need to be introduced at various levels so that when young people marry, they are fully aware of their responsibility to themselves, to future generations land to society.” (jacket)